Top 1200 Football Field Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

I never leave the field. I block. I catch. I never leave the field. I don't have anybody do my job. I do it myself.

When the football world is ready to adhere to the diversity codes so that BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities, plus women, get the opportunities in football then I'll see that as a step forward.

I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football.

I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the Premier League and football handles racism should be with great severity because there's no place for it in the world.

You take care of business on the field; everything will take care of itself off the field.

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

I love football, football is my life.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

A field of glory is a field for all.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

I love college football. I've been involved with college football since 1953. That's a long time as a player, coach and 30 years in television.

Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

It all starts off on the field. In any sport, that's how you catch people's attention. From there, you kinda show your fans, your following, what kind of person you are and your personality. I let the field work do its work.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it's football, and you want to play with the best.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

It's nice to be settled and enjoying my football, the new experience, playing in the Champions League and all the things you dream about when you start playing football.

You can score goals at youth level but men's football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

You know, us in Africa, all what we know, all what we dream about is football. Because when I was young, all what I tried to do, all what I had a chance to watch on TV was football.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That's what he grew up around; that's what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That's what I took, and that's what I want on my football team.

I think my reputation speaks for itself. But everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and I'm going to continue to play football - play physical football.

I refused to let my brother down, because he sacrificed for me. And I always told him, 'As long as one of us playing football, we both playing football.'

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

Asian football is the future of football.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.

Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Football is much more than 1,500 N.F.L. players. You've got to realize that the N.F.L. sets the standard for young players. Whatever they see on TV, that's what football is.

Football is football but life is life. I am so happy at being a father and reaching the Champions League final.

I love English football because it's real football. I love everything that surrounds it. The public, the atmosphere, the preparation.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

I don't dislike football. I love football.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.'

When you're at a football club, the heart and soul of it is bigger than a win or a loss, so I'd like to think I leave the football club in a good place.

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

I know the pressure of being Barcelona's goalkeeper, but I'm here to play my football and the football Barca want to play. I'm not afraid.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

Football without challenges isn't football.